Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Quotations
Music
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
